“*A carcinogen is a substance, organism or agent capable of causing cancer*”.
“*Cancer* is *a disease in which some of the body’s cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body*”.
How does something like alcohol or tobacco cause cancer?
In: Biology
Cancer itself is uncontrollable cell growth, but the trigger for that is usually genetic mutation. Alcohol and tobacco can influence genetic mutations by damaging DNA and thereby increase the chance that you’ll get a mutation that leads to cancer.
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